Guyana Stores building outdoors food court

Guyana Stores Ltd, which traditionally sported a picturesque landscaped eastern entrance, is now altering its appearance by adding a food court, which has obliterated some of the green space there.

Management of Guyana Stores Ltd informed Stabroek News of this development on Monday as construction work on the Church and Main Street site was ongoing. Observers have commented that the construction could take away from the aesthetics of the area.

Stabroek News learnt through Mayor and City Council Town Clerk Beulah Williams that all the requisite permission was given for alterations to the Guyana Stores building. When contacted on the question of permission on Sunday Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green had informed this newspaper that contact should be made with the Town Clerk.

A decision was made to remove the food court located in the Guyana Stores building to the Main Street entrance of the store. The departments located there, management said, would be expanded to occupy the space left by the removal of the food court.

Guyana Stores Inc was acquired by the Guyana government in 1976 as part of a broader acquisition of Bookers a huge foreign company, which had a large stake in the country’s sugar industry at the time. It was relinquished into private ownership in 2000 when the present administration sold it to Royal Investments Inc.